Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways

Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways
Author: Tony Hill
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847978509

The landscape through which railways run is often the inspiration and reason why people choose to model a particular line. Therefore creating a realistic setting in which to operate your railway is an essential aspect of modelling, yet it is often overlooked or left until the last moment. Creating authentic and believable scenery without spending a fortune or buying it 'ready made' is a skill that, with patience and understanding, can be achieved by anyone. In Creating Realistic Landscapes for Model Railways, highly skilled landscape modeller Tony Hill shows you, through step-by-step photo sequences and clear instructions, how you too can re-create a realistic landscape for your model railway. With chapters on modelling trees, grass, water, fences, rock, walls and hedges, this book will tell you everything you need to know to design and create a unique and special setting in which to operate your model railway. Superbly illustrated with 395 colour photographs.

Essential Model Railroad Scenery Techniques

Essential Model Railroad Scenery Techniques
Author: Pelle K. Søeborg
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2009
Genre: Models and modelmaking
ISBN: 0890247366

Learn how to construct the most common forms of scenery: mountains, deserts, rural areas, and city scenes. This book provides essential scenery tips and techniques through highly detailed photos and step-by-step instructions.

Paper Structures and Scenery for Model Trains

Paper Structures and Scenery for Model Trains
Author: Dominic Robert Villari
Publisher: Figment Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-08-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780981494050

Learn to use paper to create unique structures, landscaping and background on model train layouts. Includes strategies, tips and step-by-step instructions for creating paper-based scenery in model railroading. Also includes materials and instructions to create six practical projects.

Building Realistic Model Railroad Scenery

Building Realistic Model Railroad Scenery
Author: Kathy Millatt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2022-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781627008761

Bring your layout to the next level with a complete overview of modeling railroad scenery from modeler and Model Railroader Video Plus host Kathy Millatt. In this "scenery makers bible" you'll learn how to use the latest techniques and materials, as well as time-tested "classic" methods for modeling mountains, rivers, forests, railroad rights-of-way, towns, and cities that occupy any modeler's layout. Perfect for everyone from a beginner to an expert modeler, this book includes: Step-by-step photo sections to show different methods used to build scenery. Details about techniques and materials to advance your modeling. Unique insights, tips, and tricks into layout detailing. And more! Take your layout from bare plywood or foamboard to a detailed scene that will surround your model trains!

Building Bridges and Viaducts for Model Railways

Building Bridges and Viaducts for Model Railways
Author: Bob Alderman
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-08-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847978193

Written by an acknowledged expert, this practical book is essential reading for all those railway modellers who wish to build a bridge or a viaduct for their layout. This new book contains in-depth descriptions and photographs of bridges located around Britain (and one in New Zealand), ranging from the small to the monumental, from which the modeller can gain ideas and draw inspiration. As an essential aid to modelling, the constituent parts of the bridges are described as well as the engineering principles that make them 'work' and the materials from which they are built. Step-by-step instructions and photographs depict the construction in plasticard of five models: a simple girder bridge; a truss-girder bridge; a masonry arch bridge; a plate-girder bridge; and a viaduct. The book covers prototype research, taking measurements, modelling materials and tools, and examines the finishing process, including different ways of applying paint and weathering powders in order to make your model look authentic. Fully illustrated with over 500 colour photographs and diagrams.

Creating a Military Modelling Diorama

Creating a Military Modelling Diorama
Author: Terry Booker
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1785009052

Creating a diorama offers modellers a chance to display their figures and vehicles in a realistic setting, often providing a 'snapshot' of a moment in history. This book provides step-by-step instructions on how to plan, design and build a diorama and is suitable for new and more experienced modellers. With over 270 colour photographs, it considers all scales from 1/87 (H0) to 1/32 and their implications for the diorama builder. The importance of research to ensure historical accuracy is emphasized. Advice is given on the creation of dioramas in different scales and sizes. It demonstrates the techniques required to achieve effective results for landscapes, terrain and vegetation. Finally, examples are included from the Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, World War I and World War II.

Modelling Railway Scenery Volume 2

Modelling Railway Scenery Volume 2
Author: Anthony A Reeves
Publisher: Crowood
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1847979440

Whether you are just about to embark on your scenic modelling journey, or want to re-work an existing layout, this clearly written volume will be invaluable. The author guides you through the process of collecting field-trip information, both written and photographic, and then demonstrates, using step-by-step instructions, how the colours, textures and features depicted in the reference photographs can be replicated to create a wonderful model landscape. The author describes in detail the modelling techniques he employs to create long and short grass, crop, fallow and freshly ploughed fields, trimmed hedges, mature hedgerows, hedgerow trees, broadland trees in summer, Scots pine trees, silver birch, autumn and winter trees, as well as dead and fallen trees and trees in half relief. Finally, he brings together all the features that have been covered in the book and describes the building of a scale model representation of the field trip photographs in the form of a 3 x 2 ft diorama. Aimed at all those railway modellers who wish to create attractive, realistic scenery for their layouts, brimming with advice and tips and with over four hundred inspirational reference colour images and colour instructional photographs. A sister volume to Modelling Railway Scenery Volume 1 - Cuttings, Hills, Mountains, Streams and Lakes (Crowood 2013).

Digital Terrain Modeling

Digital Terrain Modeling
Author: Zhilin Li
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2004-11-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203486749

Written by experts, Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology provides comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field. The topics include terrain analysis, sampling strategy, acquisition methodology, surface modeling principles, triangulation algorithms, interpolation techniques, on-line and off-line quality control in data a